Recently published:

Thick of Things: - Whale Road Review
The cats in the hay field / believe anything that moves is a mouse....australopithecus - Bullshit Lit
to my dearest: / can you believe two minutes are passed since / two minutes ago we spoke?Central Line - Rust & Moth
Lately I’ve been rattling like / pennies when I walk, / and turns out, all the black holes / lead to me.

Hi there! I'm Avery (they/them), a trans and queer high school student. I write poems about lots of things, but I'm usually trying to make you laugh, trying not to die, or making some simile about food. On Twitter, I lurk at @averyotherwise. In real life, I lurk under the nearest patch of grass.

Some cool things that have happened to me:

I got interviewed once (here!)
I got featured once (here!)
'23 Best of the Net nomination for Ruminantia!
'23 Best of the Net nomination for Benediction and #4 Clippers!
Adroit Mentorship Class of '23!
Adroit Editorial Fellow '23!
Won Polyphony Lit’s 2021 Winter Contest!
Won the borderline lit mag’s Social Media Contest!
Longlisted for GASHER’s 2022 Transpoetic Prize!
Finalist in The Incandescent Review’s 2021 Winter Contest!
Shortlisted for The Dawn Review’s 2023 Prize for Poetry!
Shortlisted for the 2022 Villa-Aldama BreakBread Prize!
2023 Poetry Gold Medal in the Scholastics Art & Writing Awards!

Some of my poems I think are pretty cool:

Central Line - Rust & Moth, 2023
Lately I’ve been rattling like / pennies when I walk, / and turns out, all the black holes / lead to me...Benediction and #4 Clippers - Split Lip Magazine, 2023
(Best of the Net nomination)
my hairdresser is envious of my hair, / humid and thick...Thick of Things - Whale Road Review, 2024
(2022 Gasher Transpoetic Prize Longlist)
The cats in the hay field / believe anything that moves is a mouse...Blitztorte / Lightning Cake - Aurora Journal, 2022
If I say I was nine when I saw lightning / allow my lie...Ruminantia - Portland Review, 2023
(Best of the Net nomination)
My grandmother only calls me to complain about deer / and their incomplete bodies…August 27th, 2003 - Mausoleum Press, page 31, 2022
You cannot fool me, Mars. / I know you are the sun…frankenstein's monster gets dressed, crying: - The Dawn Review, 2023
(Shortlisted for the Dawn Prize for Poetry)
don’t look at me yet, my god / I am still pulling myself together...you asked me what I write poetry about - Ice Lolly Review, page 34, 2023
and I said / I have stolen / the insides / of a basket…The Other Day on Wikipedia & Mimesis - Peach Mag, 2022
I’m worried the wool moths / are writing on my clothes…bed and breakfast - Polyphony Lit., 2022
(Winner of the Winter Contest)
to all who ask for directions, I am sorry, I cannot swallow…

2024
Thick of Things - Whale Road Review2023
australopithecus - Bullshit Lit
Central Line - Rust & Moth
frankenstein's monster gets dressed, crying: - The Dawn Review
Ruminantia - Aster Lit
Waterline - Sylvia Magazine
you asked me what I write poetry about - Ice Lolly Review
Benediction and #4 Clippers - Split Lip Magazine
Ruminantia - Portland Review2022
The Other Day on Wikipedia & Mimesis - Peach Mag
Blitztorte / Lightning Cake - Aurora Journal
transitional ghazal - Delicate Emissions
August 27th, 2003 - Mausoleum Press
ornaments entanglements - the borderline lit mag
Maquette - Connecticut River Review
Crop Rotation & ghazal on stealing fruits from your grandmother’s fridge - VIBE
Teenage Blackout - Bullshit Lit
ways to write queer on our school computers & Pastiche from Inside the Burn Barrel - Defunkt Magazine
Inattentive - Second Chance Lit
if you'd like, this ghazal can be about god - bs/ws2021
bed and breakfast - Polyphony Lit.
unbindings - The Incandescent Review
How Did the Odyssey Sound Before It Was Written? - The Phoenix Review
Though They Called Us Two Maidens - Rattle's Young Poets